Food Security and Food Safety / La Sécurité Alimentaire

ISBN-13: 9789004145436 / Wielojęzykowe / Twarda / 2006 / 992 str.

Ahmed Mahiou; Francis Snyder

Opis

The international community today confronts a dramatic paradox: we continue to produce more and more food, yet malnutrition, hunger and famine continue and even increase, placing millions of people in peril. At the same time, the more food is produced, the more risks of unsafe food are increasingly apparent and call to be addressed, partly through law. We hope that this work may contribute to fill a major gap in the field: although food security constitutes a serious challenge on the world scale, one with many consequences, it has so far hardly been a subject of serious attention by scholars and researchers specialized in international law. La communaute internationale est aujourd'hui confrontee a un grave paradoxe: alors que les quantites de denrees alimentaires produites ne cessent d'augmenter, la malnutrition, la faim et la famine gagnent du terrain et menacent la vie de millions de personnes. Plus la production s'intensifie, plus les risques lies a la securite des aliments s'aggravent et exigent d'etre pris en charge (notamment) sur le plan juridique. En effet, bien que la securite alimentaire soit un probleme lourd de consequencesa l'echelle mondiale, elle n'a jusqu'a present recu que peu d'attention de la part des chercheurs et specialistes du droit international. Nous esperons que ce travail contribuera a combler cette importante lacune. Originally published as Colloques / Workshops - Law Books of the Academy, Volume 25.